Kratos Demonstrates XQ-58A Electronic Warfare Capabilities for United States Marine Corps
April 02 2024 - 8:00AM
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:KTOS), a
leading National Security Solutions provider, announced that Kratos
Unmanned Systems Division has successfully demonstrated the ability
of the XQ-58A to fly in concert with two F-35 aircraft and the
ability to deliver an integrated electronic attack (EA) capability
on the XQ-58A Valkyrie aircraft during a live flight test event at
Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. The demonstration completes the
first phase of the United States Marine Corps’ Penetrating
Affordable Autonomous Collaborative Killer – Portfolio (PAACK-P)
program. Flight test support was provided by the 40th Flight Test
Squadron, 96th Test Wing. All flight test objectives were
successfully met.
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The demonstration follows the award of a $22.9M
“Phase 2” contract modification on December 4, 2023 for additional
engineering development and flight test demonstrations, and marks a
significant milestone in the PAACK-P program as the Headquarters
Marine Corps Aviation Cunningham Group and Advanced Development
Team, Marine Corps Warfighting Lab, the Office of the
Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
(OUSD(R&E)), the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), and Naval
Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) AIRWorks continue to
inform MQ-58B requirements for the Marine Air-Ground Task Force
(MAGTF) Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Expeditionary (MUX) Tactical
Aircraft (TACAIR) for use in a Suppression of Enemy Air Defense
(SEAD) role.
The XQ-58A’s advanced EA payload autonomously
detected, identified, and geolocated multiple tactically relevant
targets of interest, transmitted emitter target track coordinates
to collaborative assets, and successfully presented non-kinetic
electronic attack effects against multiple emitters. Flying since
2019, the Kratos XQ-58A Valkyrie is a high-performance,
runway-independent tactical UAV capable of long-range flights at
high-subsonic speeds. The Valkyrie can serve as a loyal wingman,
conduct single UAS operations, or operate in swarms. Combining
affordability, survivability, long-range, high-subsonic speeds,
maneuverability, and ability to carry flexible mission kit
configurations and mix of lethal weapons from its internal bomb bay
and wing stations, the XQ-58A provides unmatched operational
flexibility at an affordable price for multiple Department of
Defense customers.
“MUX TACAIR promises to increase the lethality
and survivability of our current crewed platforms,” said Lt. Col.
Bradley Buick, Cunningham Group Capabilities, Research, and
Integration Officer. “These platforms are the future of air
warfare.”
Steve Fendley, President of Kratos
Unmanned Systems Division, said, “We're very excited about
the mission capability demonstrated during the flight and the
incredible effectiveness per cost that this enables; not to mention
the elimination of risk to a human pilot, and elimination of risk
to expensive manned platforms. We're proud to be pioneering
these technologies with our integrated autonomous aircraft systems
that truly validate the DoD's goal of achieving effective,
survivable, affordable mass. We are humbled to support the
vision and drive of our Marine’s customer who has charted the
course for these critical 21st century capabilities and proud
to be working as a collective team with Kratos high performance
uncrewed jets, Northrop Grumman's leading technology EW systems,
and the Marine Corps.”
About Kratos Defense & Security
SolutionsKratos Defense & Security Solutions,
Inc. (NASDAQ: KTOS) is a technology, products, system and
software company addressing the defense, national security, and
commercial markets. Kratos makes true internally funded research,
development, capital and other investments, to rapidly develop,
produce and field solutions that address our customers’ mission
critical needs and requirements. At Kratos, affordability is a
technology, and we seek to utilize proven, leading-edge approaches
and technology, not unproven bleeding edge approaches or
technology, with Kratos’ approach designed to reduce cost, schedule
and risk, enabling us to be first to market with cost effective
solutions. We believe that Kratos is known as an innovative
disruptive change agent in the industry, a company that is an
expert in designing products and systems up front for successful
rapid, large quantity, low-cost future manufacturing which is a
value-add competitive differentiator for our large traditional
prime system integrator partners and also to our government and
commercial customers. Kratos intends to pursue program and
contract opportunities as the prime or lead contractor when we
believe that our probability of win (PWin) is high, and any
investment required by Kratos is within our capital resource
comfort level. We intend to partner and team with a large,
traditional system integrator when our assessment of PWin is
greater or required investment is beyond Kratos’ comfort level.
Kratos’ primary business areas include virtualized ground systems
for satellites and space vehicles including software for command
& control (C2) and telemetry, tracking and control (TT&C),
jet powered unmanned aerial drone systems, hypersonic vehicles and
rocket systems, propulsion systems for drones, missiles, loitering
munitions, supersonic systems, space craft and launch systems,
C5ISR and microwave electronic products for missile, radar, missile
defense, space, satellite, counter UAS, directed energy,
communication and other systems, and virtual & augmented
reality training systems for the warfighter. For more information,
visit www.KratosDefense.com.
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Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These
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business of Kratos in general, see the risk disclosures in the
Annual Report on Form 10-K of Kratos for the year ended December
31, 2023, and in subsequent reports on Forms 10-Q and 8-K and other
filings made with the SEC by Kratos.
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